Buyer / Scheduler - Tibshelf
Duties
Your duties
Experience
- Plan, schedule, and monitor goods and services to meet the production requirements of the company employing such techniques but not limited to JIT, Kanban, Blanket POs, and Reschedules.
- Ensuring raw materials, components and production supplies are ordered accurately and are delivered on-time to support assembly / distribution / Installation shcedules.
- Manage inventory and safety stock levels, optimizing service performance with the most effective use of capital.
- Set-up and maintain material, supplier, and planning system data in the MRP/ERP system.
- Perform Root Cause Counter Measure when shortages occur.
- Support and provide direction regarding material availability or limitations against inventory / Installation plans and develop action plans to address.
- Gather necessary resources to address action items and follow up on all material shortage-related issues.
- Manage inventories to ensure continuous customer supply while maximizing stock turns.
- Engage in key stakeholder management with engineering, production, intercompany sales, and operations functions.
- Communicates/elevates issues as needed to stakeholders. Actively interact with Business segments, quality, warehousing & transportation to solve material issues & react to consumption patterns.
- Analyse data using Excel, creating pivot charts to identify key areas for supplier performance improvements.
- Follow up on quality issues to drive resolution with supplier and internal team.
- Work with supply base to ensure material availability; quickly resolving any gaps in availability, capacity, quality, and cost to minimize business impact.
- Accurate and timely reporting of key measurables such as Supplier delivery metrics.
- Special projects and new project development as assigned.
Qualifications
What to bring with you
Skills and Qualifications
- Extensive Experience of material buying and planning in a manufacturing / Distribution setting.
- Experience with MRP / ERP systems.
- Experience in supply chain management and inventory control.
- Proficiency in MS Office products (especially Word, Excel, Visio and Project).
- Ability to work in a cross-functional team environment.
- Excellent oral and written communications skills; ability to communicate with an analytical approach.
- Ability to communicate effectively and build strong relationships with external partners.
- Must be a highly motivated self-starter and be able to work under ambiguity.
- Must be organized and able to balance multiple priorities appropriately.
- Must be goal-focused and committed to completing task.
- Logical thinking with creative problem-solving ability.
- Detail-orientated, highly motivated, patient, and diligent.
Application